Daniel Merac is a vegan artist, lover and mystic born in Colombia, and based in Turkey. His life can be described as an ode to creativity, love, and expression, which can be contemplated in the various canvases of his existence. Daniel works with a profound love for manual craft, and harmony. This is why his preferred mediums of expression are drawing, illustration, photography, and other forms of visual arts. The artworks he creates are composed of synergy between spiritual, energetic, and physical dimensions, which are deeply inspired by nature, mysticism, emotions, imagination, meditation, art, and music.

His journey as an artist started when he began to pay attention to birds during his walks across the forests of Cali, Colombia. This contemplation of nature sparked a newfound awareness and a curiosity for studying avian creatures. That was the fuel to put his creativity into action and start to create ink artworks full of bird species. It was this creative relationship with nature that introduced him to the spiritual aspect of life.

In the first artworks, he started to see messages and signs from subtler ways of being that directed him into meditation, and from there, towards ethereal realms that he started to explore with childlike curiosity. What once started as an attempt to portray nature through drawings, turned into the process of slowly becoming nature, and allowing its expression to flow through the creative medium that it preferred to use.

Daniel Merac artist portrait
Self Portrait. Cali - Colombia, 2018.

Along this creative journey, he was introduced to the Tzolkin, the ancient system of the Maya civilization for synchronizing with the energy of each day in order to be in alignment with the cosmos. This marked a new stage in his life, a deep calling to study this mystical tool was felt. Since then, Daniel has been a curious student of the Maya wisdom, which has taken him on an adventure of self-discovery while contemplating life and its subtle teachings. The artistic work that he creates is a reflection of these explorations and comes in the shape of ink drawings, digital paintings, carvings, and more.

Over the years Daniel has taken the opportunity of working on various forms of commercial work, such as packaging illustration, album art, commercial illustration, branding, and channeling & illustration of tarot decks. Currently, he continues to work on commercial illustration projects, art commissions, and tattoo design inquiries, while keeping things mystical with his Maya natal chart and tarot reading services.

In Turkey, where he arrived through love, he lives with his life partner, with whom he shares a love for non-human animals, and a passion for coffee, art, philosophy, nature, music, cinema, and many more elements of existence. He enjoys exploring art and the creators of art, their inner worlds, and ideas. Sharing the work of artists is of great joy for him, and he does it through the ‘Indie Gallery’, a project that showcases the art of independent artists from around the world.

Daniel loves to look into new ways of being and unknown mediums of expression which often opens doors to new adventures that he loves to share with others. You are invited to join him on this creative journey.

Press:

Club Campestre Cali, January 2020.

Bored Panda, January 2019.

Artospective, January 2018.

Artist Connect, April 2018.

Exhibitions:

Alas Doradas – Club Campestre Cali, Colombia – Solo Exhibition, January 2020.

Alas Doradas – Ruby’s – Cali, Colombia – March 2019.

Highlights:

Tzolkin Redesigned – April 2021.

Tedeschi Trucks Band x Daniel Merac – December 2020.

Bird Zodiac – 2019.

Photo1 Daniel Merac - Lowres

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